Archive for September, 2007:

Behavioral vs. Contextual: Man’s Killer Gene Strikes Again

For the last two weeks I couldn’t help but notice my inbox being bombarded with reports that behavioral targeting is better than contextual targeting from the blogosphere. Despite my skepticism of the study’s results, I took a closer look. After reading a few different editorials covering this recent Jupiter Research Study(spear-headed by behavioral [...]

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Full Steam Ahead: eCommerce continues to Boggle

I’ve just returned from the Shop.org Annual Summit in
Las Vegas. Despite it being in Vegas and having mild distractions lurking around every corner, I managed to see a good deal of the conference content and not miss any of the sessions I was supposed to lead or participate in.
Many continue to ask whether eCommerce growth [...]

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Digg getting more social, but why? Profile Targeting Part 1.

As if we don’t have enough profiles, Digg is giving us one more place to build a profile, why? One more profile that can be used to provide targeted advertisements and content.
Posted on Read/Write Web earlier today:

clipped from www.readwriteweb.com
Sometime today, according to BusinessWeek, social news site Digg will launch a slew of new social [...]

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Enhance the User Experience

Long Tail Economics is about diversifying products and services in order to sell less of more. Doing this increases the amount of options to appeal to more customers. However, diversifying your product line and content often creates more opportunities for users to get lost on a website. Users that don’t quickly find [...]

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